HISTART 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Michael Baxandall, Massacre Of The Innocents
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Baxandall: painting is a deposit of a social relationship . A fifteenth-century painting is the deposit of a social relationship. (p. 1) Michael baxandall - the conditions of trade from painting and experience (1972) Baxandall helps us get at some of the issues related to the status of the italian. Altarpiece for the hospital of the innocents, florence, italy. The painting was for the church in an institution for abandoned children in. Subject matter: adoration of the magi (three kings) Virgin and the christ child (center), joseph, three magi, and angels singing above. The piece was planned and created by the artists, but the patron had a large influence in the painting because the artists had to gain permission of their designs before actually painting. Importance of the role of the patron or client in the italian renaissance. In the fifteenth century painting was still too important to be left to the painters (baxandall, p. 3)
